When you end up with a massive bruise on your forehead from smacking yourself before a max effort.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
When you end up with a massive bruise on your buttocks from smacking yourself before a max effort.[/quote]
fixed
When you’re face stays red for several days after max effort work.
When you put your sweats into your gym bag and they come out looking like Tony Montana’s nose.
When you’re a powerlifter.
When you tell your best (non-lifting) friend that you finally got your first max effort nosebleed, they ask if you’re ok, and you say “Yeah, but I’m kinda bummed… it wasn’t even on a PR” and consider that to be a perfectly normal conversation
[quote]AkeViking wrote:
When you’re a powerlifter.[/quote]
Woh woh woh woh wohhhhhhhhhhhh
[quote]white.death wrote:
he had the best developed jaw muscles I ever seen[/quote]
This sounded dirty when I first glanced at it.
[quote]chrisarmes wrote:
When you tell your best (non-lifting) friend that you finally got your first max effort nosebleed, they ask if you’re ok, and you say “Yeah, but I’m kinda bummed… it wasn’t even on a PR” and consider that to be a perfectly normal conversation[/quote]
LOL! I get this all the time from my girlfriend: “Training is all what you ever talk about”. Then I say: “Yeah, but I talk about computers too!”. And she’s all tears from laughing so hard. “Yes, my little geek”, she says.
I can’t help it. Training is my life, and I do not understand how anybody could not exercise. How they can even be content. Oh, we’re blessed that we can spend time doing such things, for some people life is all about the struggle about making it every day…
[quote]Hertzyscowicz wrote:
When you decide against joining a commercial gym because there aren’t enough plates in the weight room.[/quote]
I once had to turn down a gym for this exact reason. I was kind of embarassed… on behalf of the gym.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Yeah that’s the concept lol. Some people use “powerlifting” as an excuse to be fat and nasty and ugly JUST because they lift weights. In the 275’s and above it’s cool to be a chubby dude, but 242’s and below…no. Not heavy enough to have a valid reason for carrying excess body fat. [/quote]
Good thing I am 264, so I can carry my excess fat with pride! Shame on those 242’s and below that have a pregnant tummy!!!
[quote]h-man11 wrote:
thats a good idea with the mouthguard. my teeth always end up sore if when i work up to my heavyies. ohh well off to the shop to get one now.[/quote]
Never understood this. Once I went to a local PL meet, it was at a police station. There was a very serious policeman, lightweight, I’d guess about 75kg/165lbs doing heavy tripples with 130kg/286lbs. He huffed and puffed a lot, putting on his mouthguard and grunting on top of every rep. He really tought he was a man. So I asked to work in, just because this was the next exercise I was going to do (I was not competing at the meet, just helping, and doing some sets in between). So with no psych up, I did fives of the same weight without too much effort. Although he did not say anything, it seemed like a blow to his ego. Suddenly his manhood did not seem that big. I’m sure he usually is a bad motherfucker in that gym. After all, most people in a gym don’t do tripples with 130kg in the squat. Sad fact for most commercial gyms.
The only time I hurt my teeth was when I was going to do an overhead jerk, and forgot to pull my head back, and cracked the bar right into my jaw. That broke off something of a tooth. Too nonchalant. Never using a mouth guard on heavy squats, and do not really see the need for it.
when you call it a squat, not a fucking back squat
When you keep a pr chart for how many attempts it took to get out of bed after a Squat/DL session
When your eyes are always bloodshot and you don’t smoke pot
When the girl at the equestrian supply store knows you by name, always has your liniment (or other substances, its a judgement-free zone here 
) ready and waiting for you, and you don’t own a horse
When you see nothing humorous about a 60+ year old, bald white guy throwing up the Westside “W Fingers”
you’re the only guy you know that shits his pants over a good Tupperware set
your backpack is half full with food at all times
[quote]stallion wrote:
Never using a mouth guard on heavy squats, and do not really see the need for it.
[/quote]
Bite into a filling so hard that it pops out and you might change your mind
[quote]Pemdas wrote:
You’re having sex and think…“hrm this will help teach me to pull my hips through better.”[/quote]
HELL YEAH I thought I was the only one that thought that…
[quote]Power Tower wrote:
when you call it a squat, not a fucking back squat[/quote]
amen bro! i heard that and thought it was something new. so i had someone show me and i was like “dude, thats a regular squat.” next it will be “upward bench press”
You go to put on a t-shirt and wait with your hands up in the air for your two buddies to pull it over your head like a bench shirt… then you realize, its just a fucking t shirt and nobody is even near you.
[quote]chrisarmes wrote:
When your eyes are always bloodshot and you don’t smoke pot
[/quote]
When the people at the bondage store know the size of your gear? 
Seriously - when you have almost perpetual petichiaeal hemmorhages around your eyes.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]chrisarmes wrote:
When your eyes are always bloodshot and you don’t smoke pot
[/quote]
When the people at the bondage store know the size of your gear?
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I’m not a true pl yet… but i wanna learn–what does this refer to? and the equestrain store?? :{ tell me!!!
[quote]brute_fury wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]chrisarmes wrote:
When your eyes are always bloodshot and you don’t smoke pot
[/quote]
When the people at the bondage store know the size of your gear?
[/quote]i
I’m not a true pl yet… but i wanna learn–what does this refer to? and the equestrain store?? :{ tell me!!!
[/quote]
The bondage store had actually come up in another thread. Chrisarmes and I have a friend in common who gets his gear tailored at a bondage store. Apparently they do a great job.
The equestrian store would be a guess at stall mats for training. We have them in our garage. They are thick rubber mats that just about everyone I know with a home gym uses.
[quote]brute_fury wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]chrisarmes wrote:
When your eyes are always bloodshot and you don’t smoke pot
[/quote]
When the people at the bondage store know the size of your gear?
[/quote]i
I’m not a true pl yet… but i wanna learn–what does this refer to? and the equestrain store?? :{ tell me!!!
[/quote]
The EQ store is for liniments, they are like concentrated icy-hot. They are amazing at loosening you up. I use them before leg days or when I don’t have a lot of time to lift to hep me warm up a little faster. Also good for injuries and days when you are too sore to function.
Check out http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/default.asp?cid=176 for an idea.